Ataxia

Note and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 60 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: incoordination of right arm; and extra-pyramidal disorder. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, autopsy report, report and chart relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 64 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: subcortical degeneration of central nervous system; incoordination of lower limbs; slurred speech; and Olivo-ponto-cerebellar atrophy. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Report and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 2 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: instability of gait; ataxia; febrile illness; and rubella. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Note, chart, reports and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 17 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: epilepsy, barbituate intoxication; nystagmus; and ataxia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, notes, charts, reports and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 28 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: papilloedema; subependymal astrocytoma; ependymoma; hypertonus; tremor; ataxia; and fits. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, reports, charts and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 31 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: facial paralysis; nystagmus; dysarthria; tremor; aphasia; glomus jugulare tumour; angioendotheliomatous tumour; and papilloeema. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, note and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 61 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: headache; nystagmus; deafness; tinnitus; attacks of unsteadiness; ataxic walking; and degenerative vascular process. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed correspondence, notes, charts and photographs relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 72 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: deafness; tinnitius; dizziness; unsteadiness; nystagmus; ataxia; acoustic neuroma; and herpes zoster. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 38 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: disseminated sclerosis; ataxia; and diplopia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, autopsy report, photographs, reports, charts, notes and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 11 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: aqueduct stenosis; increased intracranial pressure; hydrocephalus; ataxic gait; headache; and meningitis. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.